The Relationship Between Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors With Number of Involved Arteries in Patients Undergoing Coronary Angioplasty

Coronary artery disease is the most common chronic¡ progressive and life-threatening disease¡ and is the most common cause of hospital admission for adults. Therefore¡ analyzing the factors that play a role in causing the disease¡ is the most important strategies.
This study aimed to determine the association between cardiovascular disease risk factors with number of involved coronary artery.
In this descriptive cross-sectional study¡ accessible sampling was done from early October to February 1392 and during this period¡ 163 patients with inclusion criteria were enrolled in the study. The variables were included socio-demographic variables¡ body mass index (BMI)¡ smoking¡ diabetes¡ high blood pressure and cholesterol and triglycerides levels¡ as well as the number of involved coronary artery based on coronary angiography. Collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (frequency distribution¡ mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (chi-square test¡ ANOVA and Kruskal-Wallis) and SPSS16.
Results showed that the mean age of the samples was 75.19 ± 9.42 years and majority of them were male (56.6%)¡ nonsmoker (62.6%)¡ without a history of hypertension (55.8%)¡ without history of diabetes (68.7%) and without history of myocardial infarction (71.2%)¡ with blood cholesterol higher 200 mg/dl (58.9%)¡ with triglycerides above 150 mg/dl (82.8%). In logistic regression analysis¡ only the history of high blood pressure (P = 0/037¡ OR = 0.5) was a predictor.
Based on the findings of this study¡ training and doing to prevent high blood pressure as one of the most important predictors of coronary artery disease in the general population seems necessary.